The Empress: Tarot for Wellbeing - Stephen McCabe

Welcome back to this substantial series exploring the individual cards of the Tarot. These sessions are short and fun yet full of mystery, meditation and beauty. You don’t need to know anything about Tarot to attend these sessions, or to use Tarot with your clients – it’s enough to seek the Tarot’s wisdom.

This session's card is The Empress. In older decks, you might find her sitting on a throne, complete with sceptre, holding a shield with a half-formed eagle emblazoned upon it. In later decks, we might find scenes of lush nature thriving all around her as she relaxes in comfortable robes. The number 3 in Tarot is a number of creativity, of laying foundations, and The Empress (at number three in the Major Arcana) is the epitome of this energy. When this card shows up we might ask, what are we about to give birth to? What is being nurtured in our lives? Where is the maternal energy at the moment? All this and more will be explored in this short, fascinating workshop.

You do not need to own a deck of tarot cards to attend this workshop, but if you have one, please bring it with you.

These sessions are standalone and open to everyone: you do not need to attend every session to benefit and it is fine to attend this session even if you don’t plan to attend others in this series. Please note, however, that these sessions focus specifically on the therapeutic teachings of one tarot card in particular. They do not go into detail about using cards as a therapeutic tool in a general sense, although some tips will be shared along the way. If that is what you are looking for, the recordings of Stephen’s four-part ‘Therapeutic Tarot Series’ can be obtained through Online Events at https://onlinevents.co.uk/presenter/stephen-mccabe/ref/1335/

More about this series

Tarot cards are used all over the world for a variety of reasons: divination, self-support, journaling, creativity, and more. In recent years, their powerful, archetypal images – which depict the human condition so powerfully – have become popular as a therapeutic tool, both for self-reflection and for use in professional therapeutic work.

The Tarot is a deck of cards which was probably created in the 15th Century in Italy. Initially used as a gaming device – or perhaps for personal contemplation – these mysterious cards quickly spread all over the world and eventually became associated with occult practices and divination.

The images of the tarot are imbued with archetypal images; they depict a human journey towards enlightenment – or perhaps, from a counselling perspective, a journey towards individuation or the actualising tendency. It has an uncanny ability to reflect important insights about our lives to us – but only if we are willing and open enough to work with it.

It doesn’t matter if you see this process as a spiritual one or a psychological one: Tarot has the power to heal, and that in itself is significant. The cards can represent experiences that words sometimes fail to capture, making them a powerful tool for expressing difficult feelings and experiences. It can also offer us fresh perspectives on our lives, helping us to break old habits, as well as being a wonderful tool for meditation and creative inspiration.

During this series, counsellor, eco-therapist and tarot reader Stephen McCabe will introduce one card per session; we will delve into the card’s symbolism and explore how we might interpret this card in an open, person-centred way for ourselves or for others.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• To learn how The Empress card can be worked with therapeutically
• To practise reading for yourself with a simple Empress Tarot spread
• To learn about the history and symbolism of this Tarot card

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• This workshop is appropriate for everyone with an interest in Tarot; experts and beginners alike, as well as those who use Tarot professionally.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• The workshop builds on previous workshops so that you feel confident working with this particular card in therapeutic tarot sessions.

This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Stephen McCabe is an ecotherapist, tarot reader, counsellor and ordained Zen Buddhist. His work includes tutoring for the Ten Directions ecotherapy training programme, facilitating nature groups in Scotland, Tarot Therapy work and running wellbeing groups based on myth and folklore. He is currently working on his first (nature-infused) novel.

Website | www.naturetherapyonline.net

Event Venue

Online